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Health & Wellness News tagged with FGM

Somalia: Raising Awareness Against FGM in Puntland
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, children, prevention, protection, female genital mutilation, fgm )

Madalena
- 591 days ago - allafrica.com
Halima [not her real name], a mother of five girls, shudders whenever she remembers how she suffered after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM/Cutting), a practice still widespread in Somalia
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UNPFA Executive Director Obaid Calls On Governments To Commit To Ending Genital Cutting
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, FGM, female genital mutilation, risks, health, healthcare, children, death )

Madalena
- 647 days ago - medicalnewstoday.com
United Nations Population Fund Executive Director Thoraya Ahmed Obaid last week in Accra, Ghana, called on governments to commit to ending genital cutting -- sometimes referred to as female circumcision or female genital mutilation -- and protect the righ
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Cameroon: Traditions That Torture
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, risks, children, africa, FGM/C, FGM, violence, abuse, society )

Madalena
- 704 days ago - fgmnetwork.org
Painful! This is the word that best describes the feeling of a woman undergoing female circumcision. The act, involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other parts to the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious o
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"Circumcision" or "Mutilation"? And Other Questions About a Rite in Africa
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, abuse, children, FGM, FGM/C, risks, circuncision, africamiddle-east, asia, australia )

Madalena
- 704 days ago - tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com
I'm not sure it's possible to find anyone dispassionate on this subject. The experts, like Lab readers, can't even even agree on what to call this procedure. (In my post I used several of the terms: circumcision, female genital mutilation, female genital
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In Guinea-Bissau, a Victim of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Calls for Its End
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, violence, children, risks, exercise, FGM, FGM/Cprevention )

Madalena
- 705 days ago - reliefweb.int
Ms. Cisse is committed to continuing to fight for FGM/C. "I am not afraid," she says. "I will do whatever it takes to have this traumatizing practice stop. This razor blade caused more than physical wounds in a woman's life."
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Girl's Death Prompts Search for New Strategies to Fight FGM
Health & Wellness  (tags: FGM, women, death, children, violence, 'HUMANRIGHTS!' )

Madalena
- 791 days ago - irinnews.org
BURKINA FASO:The death of a 14-year-old girl from female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has sparked shock and anger in Burkina Faso, which has been seen as far ahead of other African countries in the fight against the practice.
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A Slice of Bad Luck
Health & Wellness  (tags: FGM, women, children, abuse, risks )

Madalena
- 791 days ago - jamaica-gleaner.com
She remembers the four women whose mouths were decorated with tattoos and who spoke a language she didn't understand, and how she struggled as one of them violated the most intimate part of her body with a razor blade. She remembers the searing pain
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How African Women Are Winning Fight Vs. Female Circumcision
Health & Wellness  (tags: world, africa, women, children, FGM, protection )

Madalena
- 793 days ago - modbee.com
Globally, thousands more girls are presumed to have died in silence over the years from a practice that has no basis in any religion and is not condoned by any government. About 3 million girls are cut each year, and an estimated 130 million women
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USA: Rites and Wrongs: Is Outlawing Female Genital Mutilation Enough to Stop It From Happening Here?
Health & Wellness  (tags: usa, government, children, FGM, female genital mutilation, United States )

Madalena
- 828 days ago - fgmnetwork.org
As part of the federal law, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attempted to gauge the prevalence of FGM in the United States. Based on some simple math -- the number of immigrants from practicing countries in the 1990 Census, ...
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Female Circumcision Not Just African Issue
Health & Wellness  (tags: women, FGM, female circumcisionworld, children, abuse, humans )

Madalena
- 828 days ago - fgmnetwork.org
Among social activists and feminists, combating female genital mutilation, or FGM, is an important policy goal. Sometimes called female circumcision or female genital cutting, FGM is the cutting of the clitoris of girls in order to curb their sexual ...
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Female 'Cut' Exported to Europe
Health & Wellness  (tags: world, women, female genital mutilation, fgm, children, death )

Madalena
- 829 days ago - eastandard.net
Kadra, a young Somali girl, stirred controversy in Norway in 2000. She wore a hidden camera and microphone while speaking to an Imam who tried to convince her to get circumcised
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New Study Shows Female Genital Mutilation Exposes Women and Babies to Significant Risk at Childbirth
Health & Wellness  (tags: world, women, FGM, childbirth, abuse, alert, children, risks )

Madalena
- 842 days ago - who.int
women who have had Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) are significantly more likely to experience difficulties during childbirth and that their babies are more likely to die as a result of the practice.
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FGM Strategies, 2007-2009
Health & Wellness  (tags: FGM, women, world, children, abuse, mutilacion )

Madalena
- 848 days ago - npwj.org
NPWJ's strategy aims to break the culture of silence, build the strategic capacity of anti-FGM advocates and promote the law as a positive and lasting tool for behavioural and social change to contribute to turning the tide of social norms against FGM...
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Eritrea: Maputo Protocol and Excision
Health & Wellness  (tags: Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, Excisionwomen, world, abuse, ethics, humans )

Madalena
- 848 days ago - childsrights.org
Last April 6th, the government of Eritrea announced officially that it had prohibited on its territory the practice of excision which touches 94% of female Eritreans
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ETHIOPIA: Female Circumcision Declines in Southern Region
Health & Wellness  (tags: FGM, mutilacion, women, world, humans, abuse, children )

Madalena
- 848 days ago - irinnews.org
ADDIS ABABA, 31 July 2007 (IRIN) - The number of girls and women who undergo female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has declined in Ethiopia's Southern Regional State, and could be reduced further if stronger penalties were enforced,
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